Fall 2026 Akris Collection featuring Olga de Amaral

13 March 2026

For the Fall 2026 Akris collection, Albert Kriemler’s atelier is in dialogue with the work of Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral.

The collaboration emerged slowly. Nearly a decade ago, Kriemler had first attempted to work with Amaral, drawn to her extraordinary manipulation of fibers and surface. The idea was initially declined by the artist’s family, only to resurface years later after Kriemler traveled to Bogotá to visit Amaral at her Casa de Amaral following her major exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.

What he encountered there revealed a deeper connection between their practices. Amaral, now in her nineties and still working daily, produces her monumental woven works with the assistance of a small group of women she affectionately calls her “fourteen hands.” The phrase resonated strongly with Kriemler, who immediately recognized a parallel with the collaborative labor of his own atelier. In both worlds, the work emerges not from solitary authorship but from a collective environment where patience, craft, and repetition shape the final result.

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Image: Olga de Amaral, Escrito X, 2006, Linen, gesso, acrylic paint, gold leaf, silver leaf, 231.1 x 154.9 x 2.5 cm, 91 x 61 x 1 in, © Olga de Amaral, Courtesy Lisson Gallery